TIL about Jap Herron, a novel attributed to Mark Twain—written in 1917, seven years after his death, via Ouija board.
Jap Herron - Wikipedia
Early forays into generative AI.
Ouija would be a great name for a new ai model
OuijAI
Because Clemens and her publishers were unable to prove that the book was not written by the ghost of Twain
Anything to disenfranchise a woman.
I mean, look I'm not going to contend there isn't sexism or persistent and structural approaches to disenfranchisement of women..
but in this example a woman, suing another woman, over whether or not the ghost of the estate of the first woman can claim rights to the work that the second woman penned (the second woman also claimed he ghost penned the work, or steered i guess?)
If anyone's being disenfranchised in this story that I think even Scooby Doo would struggle with, it's the ghost of Samuel Clemens.
More broadly, does your estate have rights to that which your spirit creates in the afterlife?
Using an Ouija board to write even a short story sounds like an agonizingly tedious endeavor.
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